You guys are the national champions -- I'm not backing off the fact we need a playoff system.

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Siemens is now backing SeaGen, the first commercial tidal system, deployed at Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland.

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The Los Angeles public school system is backing off its plan to end so-called social promotion, whereby kids are sent to the next grade even though they are not qualified to be there.

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The peer also said it would ensure that the boundary review was based on the new system of individual voter registration, to be brought in under the bill with all-party backing.

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In reality, it is difficult to see F1's minnows backing a system that would see them end the season empty-handed.

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Second, with the backing of the institutions, Mr Lerach believes he can improve the system, by forcing companies to reform themselves as part of the settlements that his law firm negotiates.

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But its system, known as Telescript, failed to catch on despite backing from the likes of Sony and Motorola.

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"If James Murdoch did not have the backing of independent shareholders at BSkyB, I think his position would be very difficult, under the British governance system" said the source.

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But she has given her backing to the most notable pillar of Mr Menem's past economic success, Argentina's unusual monetary system which pegs the peso to the dollar, and money supply to the level of foreign-exchange reserves.

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She needs the backing of state governments for contentious planned reforms: a national school curriculum, changes to the financing of the health system and a tax on mining profits.

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